Religion, the enlightenment, and the new global order / edited by John M. Owen IV and J. Judd Owen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Owen, John M.

Owen, J. Judd.

Series:

Columbia series on religion and politics.

Columbia series on religion and politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and politics.

Enlightenment.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Largely due to the cultural and political shift of the Enlightenment, Western societies in the eighteenth century emerged from sectarian conflict and embraced a more religiously moderate path. In nine original essays, leading scholars ask whether exporting the Enlightenment solution is possible—or even desirable—today. Contributors begin by revisiting the Enlightenment's restructuring of the West, examining its ongoing encounters with Protestant and Catholic Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism. While acknowledging the necessity of the Enlightenment emphasis on toleration and peaceful religious coexistence, these scholars nevertheless have grave misgivings about the Enlightenment's spiritually thin secularism. The authors ultimately upend both the claim that the West's experience offers a ready-made template for the world to follow and the belief that the West's achievements are to be ignored, despised, or discarded.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

I. The Enlightenment Revisited

1. Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Global Order / Owen, John M. / Owen, J. Judd

2. Religious Violence or Religious Pluralism / Galston, William A.

3. Religion, Enlightenment, and a Common Good / Elshtain, Jean Bethke

4. How and Why the West Has Lost Confidence in Its Foundational Political Principles / Pangle, Thomas L.

II. The Enlightenment, Secularity, and the Religions

5. The Enlightenment Project, Spinoza, and the Jews / Novak, David

6. Puritan Sources of Enlightenment Liberty / Witte, John

7. India / Mehta, Pratap Bhanu

8. Reason and Revelation in Islamic Political Ethics / Sachedina, Abdulaziz

9. Islam, Constitutionalism, and Liberal Democracy / Hashmi, Sohail H.

10. Religion and Politics / Papini, Roberto

11. Concluding Thoughts / Owen, John M. / Owen, J. Judd

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612990410

9781282990418

1282990411

9780231526623

0231526628

OCLC:

704519814